Show-rack for watches



P atented Jan. 2, 18833 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HUGO SCHMIDT, oF oHIoAeo, ILLINOIS.-

SHOW-RACK FOR WATCHES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 270,134, dated January2, 1883.

A pplication filed June 16, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom'lit may concern Be it known that I, HUGO SCHMIDT, acitizeuof the United States, and a resident of Chicago, Cook county, Illinois,have invented a new and useful Improvement in Show-Racksfor Watches, ofwhich the following is 'a specification.

My invention relates to a watch-rack made mostly of tubing, where two ormore uprights are provided with holes to carry cross-bars, where theends of those cross-bars carry ornaments, and where a number of hookscan be titted to those cross-bars for the purpose of hanging Watchesthereon.

It consists in one or more cross-bars made of tubing, and having a slotrunning lengthwise from one end to the other, and in the combinationthereof with uprights provided with holes to carry those crossbars, withornamental pieces fitted to the ends thereof, and with hooks movabletherein.

In the drawings herein referred to and forming a part of thisspecification, Figure I is afront view of the watch-rack. Fig. ll is aview of a section at the line a I) of Fig. I, and Fig.

III is a sectional view at the line 0 d of Fig. I. A A represent thestandards or uprights,

' which are provided with holes ate ee 6 to hold the cross-bars B B.These cross-bars consist ofa tiieceoftubing, and have a slot, 11,running from end to end, as can best be seen from the lower crossbar B,which is turned one-quar- .ter turn out of its naturalposition to showthis slot in the front. The slot makes the crossbar flexible enough toadjust itself to slig ht variations in the size of the holes throughflexible tube than to a rigid one, and the spring in the tube willprevent them from shaking otf. G G G are books provided with headsf,

which arefitted, to enter the slotted bar B as the neck 9 of the hookpasses into the slot at the end of the bar. This can best be seen inFig. II. The hooks are set in the cross-bars when the ornaments are offand before the cross-bars are fitted to the uprights. hooks can be keptsecurely from falling out of the cross bars by putting the ornamentalacorns r on each end of the cross-bar, and the Watch-rack canconveniently be set in a boxapart. When it is put together the uprightswill not allow the hooks to come off.

Having thus described my inventiomwhatl claim to-have invented, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In a show-rack for watches, the combination of the standards A, havingholes 6, with the cross-bars B, having slots b from end to end, adaptedto receive and hold hooks G, as shown, the cross-bars being passedthrough the standards, and having ornaments 1" se' cured to theirslotted ends, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

' HUGO SCHMIDT.

Witnesses: I

WILLIAM S. NORTH, AUGUST KoRTH.

Then the

